Well, I survived another challenging quarter. This was my first one as a Teaching Assistant at UCLA and it took some getting used to balancing teaching responsibilities, my own research, and family life. Teaching took the bulk of my time this quarter. Though I know this is a life long struggle for academics, I will [...]
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12 Oct 09
Teaching the Bible at a Christian college is one thing. And teaching the Bible at a non-confessional (”secular”) university is, of course, something else. But teaching the Bible for one class session during a ten-week course on the foundational history of Western civilization is another thing entirely. That’s what I’m doing this week.
I am responsible [...]
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Posted in bible, pedagogy, ucla
26 Sep 09
Harvey Cox, the Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard, will be stopping by my academic home next month. The Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA will be hosting a lecture of his entitled “The Future of Faith” as its Dr. Marvin Fieman Lecture on the Future of Religion.
I’m not sure I’ll be [...]
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Posted in Harvey Cox, ucla
22 Sep 09
Today was TA orientation for the History Department. It was definitely worth the while. Of course, we learned about our resources and who we should contact about whatever issue . . .
“And don’t forget to fill out those purple forms so that you can see your roster on MyUCLA. Talk to Hubert about any computer [...]
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Posted in pedagogy, teaching, ucla
21 Sep 09
A shared office. But this shared office, apart from being my first official “office” at any institution, has special meaning. After Prof. Bartchy’s office, this office is the second room that I visited on UCLA’s campus. As a prospective Ph.D. student, I awkwardly stumbled on campus to meet one of Bartchy’s grad students in person, [...]
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Posted in career, life, ucla
12 Sep 09
Not how-to books. When you think of martyrs, martyrdom, and martyrology among early Christians and Jews, what are the must-read secondary sources? Along with a couple other grad students at UCLA, I will be doing a reading course with Boustan following along with his undergrad seminar: “Martyrdom and Religious Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean World: [...]
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Posted in courses, martyrdom, ucla
2 Aug 09
It’s going to be an interesting fall quarter. This fall I will be a Teaching Assistant for the first time in my UCLA career. Being a TA is a bigger deal at UCLA than it has been in my experiences as a TA at Fuller Seminary and Messiah College. You have to apply for the [...]
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Posted in classes, ucla
29 Jul 09
My exploration of the SBL program book begins as I try to find all the UCLA folks who are contributing in SBL sessions this year. We have SBL participants from several nooks of the school, including the Department of History (S. Scott Bartchy, Ra’anan Boustan, Jacob Latham, A. Sue Russell, Kevin Scull, and me), the [...]
27 Jul 09
Everybody knows that the California budget is in the toilet and has been for some time. Sure, part of that is due to the bad economy that we’re all experiencing. But it’s also because California legislators don’t know how to compromise. I have rarely seen the affects of drastic things occurring in government in my [...]
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Posted in education, government, ucla
8 Jul 09
I have taught in a few different capacities. Several of those have been ministry-related–small groups, sermons, Sunday school, etc. My first teaching assistant position was for Greek as an undergrad, where I often helped go through homework with students in class. In that position, in TA spots I had at Fuller Seminary and as a [...]
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Posted in career, pedagogy, ucla
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Elsewhere . . .- Michael Goulder Bibliography Mark Goodacre
- Why the Society of Biblical Literature should change its motto noreply@blogger.com (Alan Lenzi)
- Gobbets Mary Beard
- Deadline alert for SBL Atlanta JohnFH
- Messiah College receives federal recognition for commitment to community service - Patriot-News (author unknown)
- 100,000 Downloads of the Logos Bible Software iPhone App rburns
- Life Before Google James F. McGrath
- A False Prophecy: The Future of the Internet noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Claude Mariottini)
- My New Association with Asbury Theological Seminary Nijay Gupta
- SBL Midwest Night One - Texts and Jewish Identity J. Brian Tucker
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